For the first four movies, Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley was the undisputed main character of the Alien franchise. Every film revolved around her, and she was as integral to this saga as the xenomorphs themselves. We were following her journey, from her ill-fated job on the Nostromo to her hellish experience on the prison planet to her eventual resurrection via cloning. But, ever since the franchise moved away from Ripley and turned the spotlight on other characters at different points in the timeline, the connections to Ridley Scott’s original 1979 movie have gotten much more tenuous and tangential.
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